The largest country in Europe, Germany, is going to the polls this weekend.<br /><br />The election campaign has been dominated by concerns about the economy.<br /><br />Signs of recovery have been seen but the country has been badly affected by the global recession.<br /><br />Many workers have had to accept reduced hours and reduced pay as an alternative to being laid off.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports from Hamburg, a port city hit hard by the global economic downturn as the world ran out of money to buy German goods.
